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May 14, 2024
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HIS 235 - Methods and Key Themes in African American History Since Reconstruction (3)This course shall be regarded as a community of scholars coming together to examine select topics of African American history and Black culture. In the process of this examination, students will be focusing on acquiring information, improving writing skills, and sharpening critical thinking ability. To attain these goals we will be involved in reading, discussing, and writing. As a result of our efforts students should learn to present their ideas, both orally and in writing, in a clear and precise manner. We begin with a critical examination on the evolution of historical writing of Black culture. It then proceeds with a critical examination of Black/White relations in the United States at the intersections of race, class, gender, and culture from the Abolition Era to the Black Lives Matter movement. While the readings will provide critical insight into the organic formation of institutional racism and structural inequality, adequate attention will be directed towards social, political, and economic responses exhibited by African Americans to overcome oppression during the long freedom struggle. The course will also provide historical, socio-political, socio-economic, and socio-cultural contexts as analytical tools to aid student analyses of major themes, questions and problems presented within the literature. Students will also be encouraged to find links between the past and the present.
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